The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands has gone crazy. Six months ago, it was the country with the most colonies on the west coast of the Nubisian continent. As a result, in the past few months, three of its colonies have disappeared. What is most unexpected is that the three colonies
It’s not that it’s not in the hands of its most guarded enemies, the overseas dominions, but it’s been occupied and divided by its allies and pirates...
The allies they originally thought had stabbed the Fox Islands United Kingdom in the back. The central colony and the southern Port Port Colony were annexed and occupied by the principality of Leriolo and the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance respectively. This was the most frustrating thing for Fox.
The United Kingdom of the Islands is the most exciting place. These two colonies have been in operation for many years, have many immigrants, and are rich in products. They are the most reliable logistics support base for the kingdom's powerful navy across the two continents.
It is another bad news that the Mount Guards Harbor Colony is occupied by the Black Sail Pirates. However, this colony is located at the northern end of the country. It is a remote place and is the mineral resource collection area of the United Fox Islands. There are not many immigrants, except for ore transport ships and
Apart from slave traders, there are very few other merchant ships coming to trade...
If the kingdom had not wanted to turn this colony into a shipbuilding base capable of producing iron-clad warships, it would have invested in large-scale infrastructure construction. But all of this was destroyed by the Black Sails Pirates. After being plundered by the Black Sails Pirates, the colony was
The kingdom's top officials forgot about it, but they didn't expect that Black Sail Island would quietly circle back and occupy the colony again.
The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, which had lost all its colonies, was restless like an ant in an iron pot. Within three months, it sent three envoys to the overseas dominions. The first envoy waved a bank draft and ordered twelve ships.
The second generation ironclad battleship was delivered half a year later. The second envoy came to the Dominion Military Region to negotiate the training of armored battleship trainees. They paid 100,000 gold crowns to get the Dominion Military Region to agree to use Rodex Bay as a training base.
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The third envoy also came from the Dominion Military Region to purchase the artillery equipped on the second-generation ironclad warships, but unfortunately, the Dominion Military Region no longer produces the heavy-duty naval guns with front loading and firing solid projectiles. Fortunately, Mourier
The German general's ocean-going transport fleet later captured more than a dozen armed smuggler ships equipped with this device, and ordered these naval guns to be gathered together to satisfy the third envoy's request...
Half a year later, twelve armored warships customized by the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands in the Dominion Military District gathered in Rodex Bay. The trainees were all trained, and the armored transport ships were also loaded with coal. The senior naval officers of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands were confident.
He is commanding the fleet and preparing to set sail to recapture the lost colony.
However, Claude is not optimistic about what the second-generation armored fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands will do when it goes north. The main reason is that this kingdom is too partial. It is no longer an era when a powerful naval fleet can conquer the world. It only relies on the navy.
, the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands cannot regain its lost colony, and even if it does, it cannot hold it...
As expected, the first target of this armored fleet of the Fox Islands United Kingdom was the Port of Purcell Colony that was annexed by the Opsaro City-State Alliance. However, the Opsaro City-State Alliance did not have a powerful navy and had no intention of fighting with the Opsaro City-State Alliance.
The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands came to a decisive naval battle. On the contrary, perhaps out of a guilty conscience, they took the initiative to avoid the front of the armored fleet of the Fox Kingdom, moved the urban residents within thirty miles of the coast to the inland, and implemented a sea ban.
, let the armored fleet toss around within thirty miles of the coast...
There is nothing to worry about. There is nothing in the deserted seaport town, unless you form a team to advance inland. But the weakest thing in the United Kingdom of Fox Islands is the army. Leaving the battleships and marching inland is simply a waste to the naval officers.
It was to die. So after two or three days of wandering along the coast of the Port of Purcell Colony, I felt bored and ordered to return to the team and set sail again. This time the target was the central colony occupied by the Principality of Leriolo. There were several Fox Kingdoms there.
One hundred thousand immigrants should be able to get help and regain their lost land.
However, the Principality of Leriolo had already built solid forts and other defense facilities in the seaport towns along the coast of the Central Colonies, and launched a bombardment-type artillery battle with the armored fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. At the same time, another generation of armored warships attacked, taking advantage of every opportunity.
They launched a harassing war against the armored fleet. As a result, after three days and two nights, the armored fleet of the Fox Islands United Kingdom voluntarily evacuated. If they persisted and ran out of food, ammunition and fuel, the armored fleet would be captured by the enemy...
Now the remaining supplies of the Ironclad Fleet are enough to insist on a trip to the Mount Guards Seaport Colony. As long as this colony can be recovered, all supplies and ammunition will be replenished. The naval officers of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands have never been so urgent.
I have hoped that they can have a seaport as a base on the west coast. I believe that the black sail pirates will never be the opponent of the iron armored fleet. Under normal circumstances, the pirates will turn around and run away when they see a country's regular navy.
But the Black Sail Pirates seemed to regard the Mount Guards Harbor Colony as their own territory. They built forts at the coastal ports, constructed waterways in and out of the harbor, and displayed the courage and courage to fight to the death with the Ironclad Fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands.
Determination. So the battle started again. The morale of the sailors of the iron-clad fleet that had been drifting at sea for a long time was low. They did not have the determination to fight the black sail pirates to the end and the dedication to die heroically on the battlefield...
The iron-clad warships of the black-sailed pirates were dispatched. The artillery shells from both sides flew through the air, leaving traces of cannonballs of varying sizes and depths on the decks of their respective iron-clad warships. A black-sailed pirates' iron-clad warship rushed to the Forks
Not far away from a second-generation iron-clad warship of the United Kingdom of the Islands, about ten to twenty meters away, braving fierce gunfire, a few black-sailed pirates took a stuffed shark made of iron shell.
Put it into the water, aim at the second-generation iron-clad battleship in front, and then light the match rope on it...
As the match rope was lit, the stuffed shark emitted black smoke from the back of its iron shell. Then it started to move in the sea water and rushed towards the second-generation iron-clad battleship not far away. The speed was not very fast.
.It’s just that the navy officers and soldiers of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands didn’t know what this thing was, and they were so dazzled that they thought it was a sea monster. They just watched helplessly as this shark specimen-like thing hit the bottom of the second-generation iron-clad battleship.
A huge explosion sounded, and the water splashed more than ten meters above the battleship. The second-generation iron-clad battleship began to tilt to the other side as if it had been hit by a train. The damage control personnel in the bottom cabin climbed up to report that the violent explosion just now made the ship tilt to the other side.
There are large cracks in the welded parts of the metal plates at the bottom of the battleship. Seawater surges in. The steam-powered machinery in the bottom tank has been submerged. Too much water has entered the battleship and it is hopeless. Everyone, please run for your life...
Four violent explosions destroyed three second-generation iron-clad warships of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. Another one was lucky enough to have a small crack that was blocked by the damage control personnel, allowing other warships to pull it away from the battlefield. Nine ships.
The armored fleet of the Fox Islands United Kingdom, which left the battlefield in despair after defeating the battle, finally arrived at the colony of the Principality of Federo before running out of fuel, and repaired and rested at the harbor here...
The colony of the Federo Principality does not produce black stone coal, so the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands could only pay to purchase a large amount of charcoal to load on ships for fuel. It returned to the Dominion Military District with nine scarred second-generation iron-clad warships, at Vibato Port.
After the shipbuilding base repaired the warships, it purchased a large number of marine steam-powered machinery and propeller spindle configurations and returned to the Fox Islands. In the next few decades, the fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands never visited the west coast again....
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In front of Claude, there was already a blueprint of a bomb that looked like a specimen of a shark that the Black Sail Pirates used to attack the Fox Kingdom's armored warships. What Claude didn't expect was that this thing was called a moving mine...
Who named it? I have no ability to name names. Claude picked up a pen and changed it to torpedo. Anyway, it looked like a shark, so it was okay to call it a torpedo. It is said that this thing is the masterpiece of a rune mage under Erikson.
That guy originally wanted to make a mine that could wait in the water, but he couldn't make a device to control the time when the mine exploded. He simply made a movable mine that could actively ram into the warship, and this kind of movable mine that looked like a shark specimen appeared.
This kind of mine has a very simple structure. It has a long cylindrical shape that looks like a shark, with two shark fins on the outside for balance. The head is filled with gunpowder and has an impact trigger device, and the tail is a small propeller with a spring torsion blade. It is put into the water.
After tightening the spring twister, the whole mine can be pushed forward in the water. Of course, the distance is not long, only about twenty meters. The speed is not fast, it is about the same as walking quickly on the plains. The battleship will find it earlier.
It can be completely avoided...
If it cannot be avoided, the mine will explode the moment it hits the ship plate. This explosion basically occurs underwater. The water pressure generated by the explosion will be used to tear apart the welding gaps in the ship plate, causing the ship plate to leak.
The cabin was flooded and sank. However, this thing seems to pose no threat to the third and fourth generation ironclad battleships of the Dominion Navy, because the bottom tanks of the Dominion's own ironclad battleships are designed with watertight tanks. Water leaks like this will not have any impact on the battleships.
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This should be regarded as the most primitive torpedo. Claude ordered that this weapon should be paid attention to and invest in upgrading tests and improvements to reach practicality as soon as possible. His request was simple, this torpedo can be used
When launched from a battleship, the launch distance can reach one thousand meters, and the speed can be more than twice that of an armored battleship. It is guaranteed to sink an armored battleship in one hit. Only in this way can it be considered to have actual combat value...
Apart from the original torpedoes of the Black Sails Pirates which gave Claude an unexpected surprise, Claude was not very interested in what happened to the Ironclad Fleet of the United Kingdom on the Fox Islands heading north. A country that had lost all its colonies and had a weak army
It is simply a dream for the kingdom to rely on the armored fleet to regain lost territory. Especially its enemy also has a fleet of armored warships. It cannot even achieve a naval blockade, let alone a seaport base for supplies and rest. How can it possibly regain the lost territory?
Three colonies?
Next, it’s time to get busy with the Dominion Military Region’s own affairs. The reorganized and reorganized Hicks Volunteer Corps and the Thunder Corps have been put in place, and will soon join a standing corps of the Pamigal National Republic to attack the neighboring Vasilko
The two indigenous ethnic groups Skolo and Gisid who are still killing each other in the Principality's colony have carried out humanitarian relief, suspended their ethnic killings, and brought the Vasilik Principality's colony into orderly social security.
Speaking of which, the two indigenous peoples, the Skolos and the Gisdes, have been killing each other for about four years. The two indigenous peoples originally had a total population of nearly five million, but now only less than two million are left.
It is said that there are more than one million old, weak, women and children of the Skolo and Gisd people who ran to the Opsaro city-state alliance colony as refugees. It can be said that in the four-year period of mutual conflict between the two indigenous peoples,
During the vendetta, the population was artificially reduced by two million.
At present, the two indigenous peoples, the Skolos and the Gisdes, have built forts and fortresses in the mountainous and hilly areas they occupy to protect themselves. They have almost returned to the life of primitive people and refuse to communicate with outsiders. Without living supplies.
They went out in groups to rob. This was the reason why the Principality of Vasiliko was forced to abandon this colony after two failed expeditions. Because the local garrison was no match for these vicious natives, and the casualties were very high.
However, just after the Dominion Military District and the Pamigal people issued a so-called humanitarian rescue operation for the two indigenous peoples in the colony of the Principality of Vasilko, to stop the mutual vendetta between the two indigenous peoples, and to build a harmonious, peaceful and happy life together.
, the Thunder Corps, the Hicks Volunteer Corps, and a Pamigal Standing Corps entered the Vasiliko Principality Colony with great fanfare, destroying all the earthen forts and wooden forts built by the two indigenous peoples they found, and the two indigenous peoples were killed.
The ethnic groups were separated on the east and west sides of the colony.
In less than three months, the entire Vasiliko Principality colony had been swept away, and all the indigenous peoples had been isolated in two camps. However, the two legions of the Dominion Army continued to advance and soon entered Opsaro.
Within the territory of the City-State Alliance Colony. The Opsaro City-State Alliance colonial authorities hurriedly sent troops to block the way, and sent special envoys to the frontline headquarters of the Autonomous Territory Military Region to discuss solving this problem of straying into the border...
It’s just that the commander-in-chief of the frontline command of the Dominion Military Region, General Beach Kerin, didn’t think this was a problem of straying into the border. He asked the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance to get out of the way immediately and cooperate with the troops of the Dominion Military Region to completely solve the problem of Skok.
The vendetta problem between the two indigenous peoples, the Luo and the Gisdes.
Because during the process of the Dominion Military District's raids on the colonies of the Principality of Vasilko, many clues were discovered indicating that it was the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance who were behind the instigation of the Skolo and the Gisid people to kill each other, which ultimately led to Vasilko's death.
A humanitarian disaster occurred between the two indigenous peoples in the principality's colony. Two million indigenous people died of violence and massacres between them.
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Of course, the special envoy of the Opsaro City-State Alliance colonial authorities shouted that it was unfair and impossible. He protested that the so-called humanitarian relief in the Dominion Military Region was actually a way to invade the Opsaro City-State Alliance colony. General Beach Kerin laughed and said, even if it is
What can we do to invade you? Don’t forget that we still have evidence that you are the one behind this vendetta of indigenous peoples in the Vasilko Principality Colony. For the sake of peace, I hope you will put down your arms and surrender obediently...
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This is naturally impossible. The colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance immediately mobilized local garrison forces and built defensive fronts, but none of this could withstand the advance of the Thunder Legion and the Hicks Volunteer Corps. The three Opsaro City-State Alliance
The standing corps collapsed at the first touch, and many officers and soldiers even raised the white flag as soon as they were attacked.
So when the Thunder Legion captured the Port of Port Colony of the former Fox Islands United Kingdom, which had been surrendered to the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance, they suddenly found that they had two more security corps under their command, composed of surrendered officers and soldiers of the Opsaro City-State Alliance.
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Originally, the indigenous peoples in the Opsaro City-State Alliance colony were also the Skolos and Gisdes, the same two indigenous peoples in the Vasiliko Principality Colony. When the Skolos and Gisids in the Vasiliko Principality Colony were
After the two indigenous peoples, the Sidians, violently massacred each other, the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance immediately closed the border between the two countries, and strictly guarded and violently suppressed the two indigenous peoples in their colonies. This led to
The desire of the two native peoples to imitate their compatriots in neighboring colonies and to kill each other subsided.
The Autonomous Territory Military Region pretended to be a deer and insisted that the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance were the main force behind the vendetta between the two indigenous peoples. It was indeed unfair to them, but who allowed the colonial authorities of the Opsaro City-State Alliance to block the way of the Autonomous Territory Military Region?
Moreover, after the Dominion Military Region captured the colony of the Opsaro City-State Alliance, it implemented a large-scale migration plan, which was to move all the Skolo people to the colony of the former Vasilico Principality, and then move all the Gisid people to Opsaro.
The Salo City-State Alliance Colony allowed these two mutually hostile indigenous peoples to occupy one colony. Two high side walls were built on the border between the two colonies, three hundred meters apart. Except for a limited few passes, any border between the two colonies
Anyone in the remaining positions between the roadside walls will be shot by the guards on both sides.
In this way, the Skolo National Republic and the Gist Solidarity Alliance were established. These two indigenous nation-states have regarded each other as mortal enemies since their establishment. As for the Lupusel Port Colony, they are also called the Blue Stork people.
The indigenous peoples established the Purcell Free Federation, and the Dominion Military Region leased the famous deep-water port Purcell Port from the Lanstobuks as the second military port base on the west coast. The lease period was also ninety-nine.